Bad guys are looking for a shipment of gold stolen
by a thief and it leads to lots of fighting with a master whip man. Just enjoy
the fights and not get into too much detail about the story. Recommended with
caution

Sunday, January 20, 2019

As many
of you watch YouTube®, I have started to notice any annoying thing that of ads
which you are forced to watch and can’t skip. Usually some of the ads which
seem to be few and far and are longer have a skip ad options which I sure believe
many of people use it to watch their videos but for ads that are less than 10
seconds, you are forced to watch it and there is no skip button. I can understand
that websites have to make money but even for a song or some little videos, it
is excruciating to watch ads before you go on to watch your videos. Sometimes even
for a news item video, one has to go through sometimes 30 seconds of video ads
just to watch a two minute clip. And in news videos, you don’t have the option
to skip ads.

I know
that it may become a future staple where if you want to watch a free video, you
would have to sit through the ads to enjoy it. It is just an annoying nuisance
and there seems to be no way around it unless you want the ad-free version of
the websites, where you would have to pay in order to enjoy it. It is all part
of the effort by the media companies to generate revenues whichever way they
can in order to offset the costs of streaming and to make up for the lost
revenues due to lower subscription to the paper publication and also to
increase revenues in order to pay for the increasing expense of proprietary and
exclusive content that is now the buzz word for every streaming media. The more
exclusive your content is the more you can charge your subscribers and
advertisers. I hate it but have to deal with the necessary evil.

A hired
assassin is hired to kill two serial killers at a hotel but gets involved with
zombies and undead killers. Gross out First person movie, which I am still
unable to get my head around it. Bloody and comically gory that gets tiresome
after a while. Thankfully at almost 80 minutes, ends not so soon. I have heard they will be making six sequels
to it. Not looking forward to it though. Not Recommended

A cop
infiltrates an Island prison in order to avenge his family’s killing at the
hands of the top prisoner who rules the island. No holds barred martial arts
thriller with very minimal special effects. Recommended

Recently
an actor who was supposed to be host of the Oscar show had to withdraw because
some of things he said about gays came online and he said it seven or eight
years ago and people have pounced on it like he has committed capital. He has
since apologized but in this politically charged and political correct climate
when everybody wants people to be angels from the day they are born, it did not
matter much. One can say one thing at one time and can redeem themselves after
a while, you are not the same frame of mind when you are young and talk things
with your friends which are just a joke but later on, you gain enough insight
to retract your statement and apologize. But NO, now people want everybody to
have a clean childhood and talk about being inclusive from day one.

Everybody
wishes that it be a peaceful world and everybody embraces all kinds of people
and don’t say anything bad but it does not work that way. Sometimes you can say
things which are ignored during a time of jest but it despite offering apologizes,
some people don’t want to forgive them. It seems the so called political
correct people also have monsters in their closet and they should be afraid of
getting them revealed. People makes mistakes during their younger years and
when they don’t fully comprehend the gravity of their words, but people should
be able to have the courage to forgive them when someone apologizes; otherwise
they are not creating any friends of allies.

The
longest in the U.S. history, the shutdown continues over a budget deal that no
side either the Democrats or the Republican President is willing to budge.
Since the Congress is getting paid during this shutdown, the effect of this
childish behavior has started to increasing impact every day Americans working
class. The dispute over the payment of the wall between Mexico and United
States is increasingly being played out to the world in ridiculous ways than it
was intended. I wrote long time ago in my blog that the neither parties are
interested to get rid of this debt ceiling and each side use it to their
advantage to keep the government open for a while till the next doomsday debt
ceiling limits hits and they try to get whatever they can to get their agenda
(whatever it can be) included in the budget deal.

Instead
of automatic extensions in the debt ceiling, the bickering and increasing
divisive parties of the United States tries to get what they think their voters
or constituents want and don’t hear the fact that the people of the United
States only want things to work smoothly since it is they who will eventually
foot the bill. But working together on budget deals is so loathsome to these
parties that in order for what they want, they will hurt people and their
country in the process. But again since the representatives are elected from
people, it is also the people’s fault that they are electing them to do these
kinds of things. That is why people are not confident; their representatives
are listening to them and we will have to wait how long this shutdown
continues.

A Swedish
detective is invited to investigate a teen’s murder in a north Norway town with
24 hour daylight. The sleep deprived detective stumbles through the investigation
with increasing insanity due to the lack of sleep. Interesting movie, slow at
times but very watchable. Recommended

Sunday, January 6, 2019

A couple living off the grid in a forest in the
northwest United States gets their life upside down when the wife gets
kidnapped by drug crazed lunatics. The husband takes revenge in brutal and
bloody ways in this drug fuelled action, horror journey to hell. Recommended
with caution

A group
of friends venture out to an abandon farm despite being told by the locals to
stay away due to a legend of killer still lurking around. And as usual,
listening is not one of the traits in these horror movies as curiosity gets the
best of them every time. Killing starts anew and in gory fashion. Usual fare of
a killer offing the characters one by one.

Another
year, another death anniversary, it is true that time heals everything but not
the parting of your loved ones especially if it is your child, your parents or
your siblings. The day was Friday, January 3rd, 2009 when I got that
life devastating and altering phone call from my sister that my father had
passed away. I still miss my father immensely and just to hear his voice will
be the greatest gift of all. But after you leave this world, you venture into
the next with nothing under your control and so I mourn another year without
him in silence as I being his only son knows how to mourn in my own way,
celebrating his achievements, being proud of his son and trying to strive to be
the son he wanted me to be. Sometimes I feel so lost that I feel like I have
nobody to guide me where to go when a problem arises as I don’t feel I can
confide my problems to anyone and if there is anyone who can see through me to
know how I need help.

Parents
are a true blessing and if you lose one, you lose a part of yourself which some
people may quite not understand if they had not had close relationship with
their parents. I may not have inherited many of this traits but I am very proud
to be his son and I am eternal great GOD gave me enough time to enjoy his
company and gain from his insights in life and his wisdom. May GOD bless his
eternally and may be enjoying his life in Heaven. I love you DAD.